Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

Internet Access in the hospital?? You are so lucky! They wouldn't even let us smoke a cigarette, slapped a patch on and said there ya go! Not trying to make light, keep focused on what you to come of this time you have to heal!

Well they have to give you &quot;something&quot; maybe benadrill or something tell them your freaking out and you need somethign to help calm your nerves. Demand them to find a way to put it on the orders. They are they to help you. Not to hurt you.

If you're in hospital then they should be sliping you a haldol (anti-pshycotic)coctail. The only thing is, if our mania is well-developed it'll take some time to come down. Of course you can't do anything to calm down on your own. If we could do that then we wouldn't be in hospital!

A friend sent this to me..As far as I can see, grief will never truly end.It may become softer overtime, more gentleand some days will feel sharp.But grief will last as long as Love does - ForeverIt's simply the way the absence of your loved onemanifests in your heart. A deep longing accompaniedby the deepest Love some days. The heavy fog mayreturn and the next day, it may recede.Once again, it's...

I have my maxed amount of epidural shots of my cervical DDD....(and no one cares about my lumbar DDD)..... I've done physical therapy, muscle relaxers, Amitriptyline, Nortryptiline, desipramine.....narcotics... So I decided to go to a spine specialist and they have me on Gabapentin. Its been two weeks and it did nothing for my lumbar ever... but it did seem to help my cervical and arm/hand pain...

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